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All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 2
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NewsAlexander Rodnyansky’s personal Venice doc ‘Notes Of A True Criminal’ acquired for sales
EXCLUSIVE: The film depicts how Rodnyansky, once one of Russia’s leading producers, came to live in exile between Los Angeles and Kyiv.
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FeaturesWhy Sarajevo’s industry strand is facing up to the AI conundrum
Festival has several panels on AI as the Balkan industry fights for a seat at the table in discussions.
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NewsNational Cinema Day paused for 2025
Cinema First, organisers of the one-day annual initiative, hope to see it return next year.
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NewsCineworld pulls in 300,000 UK cinemagoers with family-film ticket scheme
The £1-per-ticket initiative is on track to pass 500,000 admissions by the end of the summer
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FeaturesBen Wheatley on why he chose to make EIFF Midnight Madness title ‘Bulk’ in secret
The film premieres in Edinburgh on August 14.
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NewsSquare Eyes acquires sales rights to Balkan drama ‘Desire Lines’ ahead of Locarno premiere
EXCLUSIVE: The flm is Bosnian director Dane Komljen’s third feature.
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FeaturesVenice head Alberto Barbera talks monsters, managing protests and the one that got away
Screen spoke to Barbera about his approach to selecting films, his future at the festival, and whether he is concerned about political protests this year.
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NewsFilms Boutique snaps up Catalan road movie ‘Strange River’, debuting in Venice Horizons
EXCLUSIVE: Catalan director Jaume Claret Muxart’s debut film is a queer coming-of-age road movie.
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News‘The Salt Path’ producers say lying allegations refer to book and not film as box office holds steady
UK newspaper ‘The Observer’ has alleged that key parts of memoir on which film is based were made up.
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NewsMoroccan producers Pink Sheep unveil two new projects
Pink Sheep’s ’The Wound’ screened in competition at the Mediterrane film festival last week.
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Features‘Leonora In The Morning Light’ overcomes funding setback to premiere in Guadalajara and Munich
Indie Sales has international rights to the biopic about the English surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
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NewsBFC head Adrian Wootton on UK indie tax credit impact, improving ties with Europe
Wootton spoke to Screen at the Mediterrane Film Festival in Malta.
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NewsMediterrane Film Festival wraps its third edition with fireworks, arias and Russell Crowe
The Golden Bee award for best feature went to Tunisian filmmaker Amel Guellaty’s Where The Wind Comes From.
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NewsJeremy Thomas on never giving up, the proliferation of producer credits and defending his friend Bernardo Bertolucci
The UK producer was speaking at Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival where he is receiving a lifetime achievement award.
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FeaturesOrwa Nyrabia reflects on his “rollercoaster” seven years at the head of IDFA
“One of the key problems with institutional work in culture is how institutions get so used to [doing] things,” says the Syrian filmmaker.
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FeaturesHow event cinema specialist Trafalgar Releasing became a top 10 UK distributor
Trafalgar Releasing is now among the top 10 distribution companies in the UK — how far can the event cinema specialist go?
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FeaturesInternational buyers head to London Screenings in search of one-to-one meetings about UK films
FIlms screening include Mister Smith’s ‘Bone Lake’.
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FeaturesSelling ‘The Salt Path’: how international distributors are turning the UK film into a box-office hit
The film based on a best-selling memoir has been a success in UK-Ireland, the Netherlands and Australia-New Zealand to date.
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FeaturesMalta’s film commissioner on keeping his country a leading destination for international shoots
The commissioner spoke to Screen ahead of the third Mediterrane Film Festival, which runs June 21-29.
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NewsBelgian outfit Lumiere moves back into distribution in the Netherlands
EXCLUSIVE: Lumiere co-owner Jan De Clercq believes the Benelux box office is poised for growth.